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Discover the beauty of cacti and other succulents with the BCSS! Whether you are an expert grower or a novice – or are just thinking of starting up the hobby – the Society will guide you all the way.

With over 80 branches throughout the UK meeting monthly you will have the opportunity to meet other enthusiasts and to learn more about growing these amazing plants. CactusWorld, the Society’s beautifully illustrated quarterly magazine is just one of the many benefits that members receive. It contains articles about new species, plants in the wild, cultivation techniques and, of course, what the Society’s many branches and members are up to.

This website offers a wealth of information about the Society – including how to join – and is your gateway to the wonderful world of cacti and other succulents.

Front cover:Matucana aurantiaca Lau 177 (Peru, Cajamarca, San Pablo, 2300-2500m). A plant collected by Lau in June 1969, growing in volcanic mineral soil. The rich red tips to the petals are most pronounced at San Pablo, and the yellow tube is generally more of a tangerine-orange in other places. The flowers of this form are 7cm long, expanding to about 5.5cm, appearing in May and usually again with a second flush in the autumn. (Photo: Roy Mottram)

CactusWorld02/2010

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Journal 02/2010 | 4.5 GBP

JUNE 2010 CONTENTS:

Some encounters with thelocacti in habitat by Peter Berresford

Windhoek via Walvis in winter by Keith Green

Lanzarote's Jardin de Cactus by Alan Ritchie

Paradise losing! by Florent Grenier

Notes on general cultivation: part 5 - magnesium and the trace elements by Ray Allcock

Petrosedum sediforme, a beautiful species of Crassulaceae from Portugal by Gideon F Smith & Estrela Figueiredo

Literature review

Cactus Talk

Robins

Front cover: This interesting-looking rarity was first found by Alfred Lau in 1971 near Huizache, but he had no idea what it was and he didn't give it a field collection number. A long time later it was eventually described in 2003 by Manfred Weisbarth as Ariocarpus retusus ssp. pectinatus, for the obvious feature of bearing a comb-like set of short spines on each areole. It has been refound in San Luis Potosi at Las Tablas, Ciudad del Maiz, and the plant illustrated was raised from Weisbarth seed in the collection of Miloslav Hájek, Prague, (Photo: Roy Mottram)

CactusWorld03/2010

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Journal 03/2010 | 4.5 GBP

SEPTEMBER 2010 CONTENTS:

BCSS Photographic Competition 2010 Part I by Derek Tribble and Geoff Bailey

Lithops for the show bench by Trevor Wray

Destination: Forever Ranch by Dixie Dringman

Notes on Ornithogalum lithopsoides by Jean-Andre Audissou

Is anything still cold-tolerant after last winter? by David Quail

The venerable Reid Venable Moran: King of the dudleyas by W R Ogdon-Leroy

Notes on Cereus crassisepalus by Bob Ressler

Oasis Park, Fuerteventura by Holger Wittner

Sedum lampusae (Kotschy) Boiss. by David Slade and Ray Stephenson

Cactus Talk

Round Robins Report

Literature review

Front cover:Aylostera 'Summer Song'. One of the best of Southfield's recent introductions, this plant is strongly influenced by its Aylostera narvaecensis parentage, itself well known for the abundance of its floral displays. Below the plant is a mass of heads forming a hemispherical mound. The flowers are up to 3.7cm long and broad, at first opening salmon-pink but soon changing to a blushing rose-pink. Photo: Roy Mottram

Front cover: David Kirkbright provides an iconic moment as he invites the audience to bid for a fine Cyphostemma juttoe at the Charity Auction of the 2010 Seventh BCSS International Convention in July. The successful event was made even more memorable by the appearance of the gardening broadcaster Anne Swithinbank. A full report is presented in this Special Convention Souvenir Issue. Photo: Trevor Wray

Plant of the Month

August 2018 - Glottiphyllum

The name Glottiphyllum comes from two Greek words, glotta meaning tongue and phyllo............

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